right now my voice is so hoarse and raw... haha, think its cuz of the continuous laughing from like 6-12. hanging out with a few of my primary sch class mates really just cracking each other up - and the road trip we had in the end to cap it off, i really must talk abt tt later... lol. anw, its really amazing how we failed to catch up much, but just amused ourselves. thanks to michelle's amazing organization skills, the evening started off with us scattered all over orchard, with different pple headed in different directions. and... when we'd finally decided tt we'd head over the paragon - after almost an hour and a half, we stepped out to torrential rains as jerald put it, and a drizzle as michelle argued. so pam suggested we head for the nearest DIY store and get shovels and start mining our way to paragon from lucky plaza. and then, jerald said i should be flattened into a poncho... bah! so was it any wonder tt buy the time jane arrived, we were -still- looking for a place for food?! haha, we of course, explained we were waiting for her, and i'm pretty sure she was totally skeptical. hmmm... haha. so when we had decided on the pasta cafe for dinner, we sat, and jane, decided to have ginger tea only cuz she was on diet! and of course, cuz she's so ah ma... ;) but she started pinching all our food, SHAMELESSLY, tt of course, i'm sure she got all the calories she nvr meant to eat. but of course, her explanation, at least i'm not buying those calories! haha... whatever!

then camera whore, jerald, demostrated his talent at capturing shots of everyone at their most inopportune moments, esp weiyang and michelle... haha, i've gotta get those pictures! ;) then after a long while of checking out various couples smooshing, or whatever tt word was, we proceeded to check out the waitresses. hmmm, well really, we were only trying to get them to take a picture of us, not trying to flatter them tt much... ;)

after the meal which left us, v much hungry still - must be jane's fault (all tt food tt goes to feed tt tumour in the front of her body getting ever larger!), or perhaps, the aimless walking abt we did, so we left for Big O. jane tried making an O sign with her hands in front of her tummy, but weiyang reminded her - really, you didn't need yr arms.

after the gushing at the star shaped dunno what, and weiyang revealing he can't think and walk at the same time (no we know why he's always lost... :/), and how we had 14s to cross the road, but somehow only made it to the edge of the road!! then when we crossed the road, we couldn't even reach the end in 30s... lol. but we made it to big o in the end. 6 desserts arrived at our table. and we proceeded to rapidly devour them, barbarically. esp the waffle i ordered! it was torn to shreds. and of course, we were commenting on how we should film these down... but then, no one would cuz if we hesistated, no more would be left. weiyang concluded we weren't really gaining calories cuz we were eating so rapidly, we were burning all the fats away. haha... gluttons we were, and we plotted tt next time, we shall have enough pple so tt we can tell the waitress - can we have this page please? thank you. and pam of course decided tt we needed reallly long forks. hmmm.

yay, so after lotsa stupid lameeee jokes, later, there was no one left at the restaurant, and we went back to wisma to look for jane's box on wheels (which incidentally as i discovered later on as i was trying to escape from the car, tt e door doesn't open!). and after she decided to take the PIE so tt we could reach tampines faster, we soon found ourselves on the CTE to ang mo kio. our road trip had began. jane tried frantically to explain her way out of it... of course, we believed her... :) haha, then, soon, we were heading to bukit timah, then to WOODLANDS?! err... and we're all easterners, we dun venture north... :/ then, somehow, after a few more random turns, she, being damn tyco, ends up at orchard - i wanted to bring you all on a nice tour. haha, we really rejoiced so hard when we hit nicoll highway. lol... and then we went near weiyang's house, then mine - and michelle let out huge cheers each time as we were not let off the car.

halfway, being reminded of our alma mater, tao nan as we sorta passed it, - and reminded of our houses (shark, killer whale blah blah), (and bombs, and cheers), our pepsi cola 123!, and cool inventions like red alert zha! with chihou as the secret weapons... hahahaaaa... we just went berzerk, those were really the days man, they were so memorable. as pam put it, how could we've imagined tt we'd be in this position, going uk, us to study, (with me being e only one in sg... :(((((), yeah and meeting up and still being our cranky, weird selfs. really miss those carefree and happy days... TNS GEP were really great... still keep in contact with so many of them... 10 years. its been so long... :)

hello pple! haha.. these few days have just been fun fun fun!! :)

feels like christmas to me! ;) monday was ra's return and a trip all round to help him out with his various errands. but at the same time, it was great to catch up with him, and of course, play the games which i do not have at his place. its scary how many dvds he has... i think he needs some sorta catalogue, cuz i see multiple copies of the same things! :/

tues, went for pride and prejudice with aud, ian n weili... haha, aud had a nice surprise for weili - a badge tt said, i'm bitchy on all days ending with 'y'. then, another one, i'm a grumpy old fart. so aud got her desserts too when we were at tcc, after she discovered she had insufficient funds to pay for her soup, she resorted to asking weili for $$ when ian n i had not enough for her. and he glared, and raised a sign up. 'i'm a grumpy old fart'... too bad audrey... haha. ahh, and the movie was rather good... the acting was good, though at times i felt like i was watching a foreign film, cuz amidst the peals of constant giggles, from the girls in e movies, and the thick accent, it was hard to discern the conversation, and i had to resort to reading the chinese subtitles!! and overall, i think the book might have been a better medium for this story then the film simply cuz a lot of elements are better left to imagination then potrayed on screen. it was interesting how the director was tantilizing us ever so often tt they'd kiss, but ever so often, it doesn't happen, till finally they do, n e movie ends.

wed, tennis in the monring... tiring! but the weather was rather good... after tt, watch perhaps love... the movie was rather good i felt. love the way the film they were filming and the actors' real life have strong parallels... i do not know all the right terms for all the things i wanna say, cuz i forgot them after literature classes. but whatever, its a really good piece of work... :) the music was really touching as well, and it was nothing as dreary as some of the other movies i watched recently... haha. at nite, went clubbing with weili and zp... haha, met quite a few pple, and in e end, congregated in a circle with yx, chelsea and ty... was bloody crowded... getting shoved here and there, and girls and guys who just grind everywhere. i'm sure i'd have got abrasion if i stayed any longer. haha.. it was really funny to see weili try to pick girls for shy and demure (acting lor!) zp... haha. damn! i wish we could've got into phuture though... would've liked e music better... ;)

realised tt my blogging has sort become a weekly affair... ah well, taking a break from writing cards, which i endeavour to finish by tonight!

been really busy... all the hustling round has made me a lil low on energy... haha. holiday seasons... enjoyable but tiring!!

i've been watching tonnes of movies this week... the promise on thurs, and its really quite ridiculous, and plus, the special effects are pathetic for a 51million dollar film... really shocking...! haha. after watching tt, i went chinatown for dinner... and bah! got a tummyache from food there i suspect... grrr... :(

then on fri, went shopping w hs for xmas stuff... only bought like 1 present and hideous cards - which i thot were assorted, but turns out not! :( sorry to e pple who got them... but hopefully e content makes i for it? ;) lol... rite. then tennis at nite at colin's... played a close dubs match tt nvr finished... 5-7 7-6(5)... well, amazing given my recent discovery i suck at doubles!

alrite... sat was tennis again... think its been too much tennis, tt's probably why my lil finger is hurting v badly now... :( think some tendon is v tender now!! then came the movie disaster... :/ wanted to watch kingkong, and thot i'd go axs to buy seats - 1st row. bah, dun want... then checked 8pm, hmmm, 3rd row... not bad. but friends dun want. so we went off... then changed our mind, and went back to the machine - second row... ok la, whatever... but somehow, by e time we printed the ticket, we were relagated to 1st row! 3hours of neck straining... so shitty... lol. hmmm, i think the movie was actually quite good la, but seriously, the first hour was unnecessarily draggy and surely, i could feel my neck protesting... but as the pace picked up, and we finally saw kingkong, all was well... haha.

sunday was an outing w nick n wp... ate at ding tai feng! missed the xiao long bao there... surely its e best in town... e only one tt e skin can be pinched here there and everywhere without breaking... retaining all e juicy stuff inside! yummy! :) yeah, then did xmas shopping... we like walked thru practically e whole orchard for sure. but it was a fruitful session indeed... bought presents for my family and quite a few friends... yeah... but think i dispensed most of them already and still have many many left... :( aiya.. never ending list of pple to buy stuff for! so sad... haha.

k, shall leave here and talk abt mon n tues tmr if i've time... happy hols pple! :)

haha... being a photowhore, and my friends being as photo-whorish... i've actually got many many pix on my com! haha... well, time i got down to uploading some... ;) (i've got 3000+ photos on my com - shocking discovery i discovered as picasa was sorting thru the rubble... :/) alrite, these photos are from the shi's bday party like eons ago... (oops, getting old ah u!)


these are from the nice xmas lights outside raffles city!! aren't they pretty... and of course, the 3 biggest photo whores of them all... ;)

at the (dreaded and #$)(@#*$) bowling alley...


collage of the day's photos... notice the chef in the bottom left corner... he's damn funny... aha. and the huge slab of meat he has... :/ all the oil! ooozing... ah.

oh, and yet another bday party - ryan's... which i dun really have any decent photos... pity! none of us brought any cam's tt day cuz we were gonna club at nite... hence, the lack of excess baggage. sorry! :/ but it was a great day we had... thank u! :)

ok, yet another bday party - this one was more a party party than the rest. gary's 21st. haha... what is it abt 21st bdays tt are more celebrated than the rest? guess its the coming of age - so u behave now! haha.

with the family and all... awww, so sweet... :)

well, it was really really crowded cuz of all the relatives and soo many of his friends there as well - uni, jc, sec, pri, and us, the tennis kahki's as he so called us when we went to take photos. haha... oh, cuz at the end of the whole thing, there was a photo taking session with the bday boy and the cake, before the cake was uncerimoniously dismantled. yeah, there was karaoke, but dominated mainly by his booty shaking sister, who was damn cute! haha... the food was nice too... and colin, al and me were playing tabletennis in the next room - and i really suck at table tennis. arghh! :( haha. i have a tendency to try to smack the ball at pple's faces... :/ and wherever else but the table. dumb!


picture of us - the tennis kahki's... and some other pple actually... hmmm? oops, didn't notice... haha

oh the cake! i love it... its soo cute... :)

more pictures of the place... decorations so remind me of when i was younger - haha, maybe its good not to grow too old too fast... ;)

yup, anw, monday was like sorta a family day... went out for lunch and went shopping and stuff... haha, its been forever since we ever did it on a week day when the malls are less crowded... such a nice and refreshing change! :)

today, was a superrrr ( i tried dragging the p, but then it looked like supper!) tiring day... :/ my gosh, slp deprived me arrived in changi rise to play tennis early in the morning - by public transport! first time in ages i took bus anywhere so early... and i paid the price. i played like slp in my slumber. bah! or.. maybe i just suck in doubles, not an impossible postulation. well, i was hitting fine during any of the given warmup, but once i'm in a match, i seem to lose track of the court. i dunno, always happens in doubles, or when warming up with 3 others. i think, i need more space... haha. so after many loses, and some more, i left... for school to play squash. crazy i know. haha. first time i've seen aud, ian, ks and marc in ages. i think i picked up the game pretty fast... was damn fun! and marc picks the game up damn fast too... was the most challenging playing him cuz he's fast! was just so so shagged, and starving after all tt exercise! haha. so after showering - which disgusting aud decided not to... we went to orchard for dinner. ate at seoul garden... clumsy audrey destroyed the wok thingie. the black stuff were the vermicilli she dropped! all charred and yucky. so if anyone looking for a wife who can cook, dun look at her. she'd spoil all yr woks... :/

evidence of the charred vermicilli... :/ and the white thing is a nata de coco we tried frying... haha.

we were really adventuorous with the food - ian with his yam icecream, atap seed, and nata de coco and dunno what else, topped generously with condensed milk! haha... me with the grass jelly, and just abt every other type of jelly, and nata de coco... and audrey with her fried sotong balls, and boiled black pepper beef... :/ ewww... and after an experiment, ice jelly melts on the wok, nata de coco and atap seeds look similar after a while, though the seed jumps! and the thing, termed sperm ball by the rawwrr audrey, is apparently the most resilient, and she thinks tt's how they can fertilize females. i hope they dun survive her disgestive tract and make her pregnant... :/

after lunch, met lotsa pple, including guandong, who noticed my stench - the seoul garden smell. boo. which led audrey to body shop to spray stuff on herself, and i, being overzealous, landed some in her mouth. didn't quite taste as nice as it smells? heh.

and my phone! i made it black recently... and damn it. i dropped it while on the escalator... dumb la. it took such a dramatic tumble. half a flight of escalator... and what could i do... watch it tumble... down and down... well, nice person helped me pick it up? no cosmetic damage... but it better be functioning well... :( clumsiness... think i've wrote enough now... shall get back to LOST. :)

hmmm, dunno why, but i've just not been in the mood to write anything... but well, i feel like posting a few pix... ;)

haha... zepeng! :) he's finally done it... esp proud of u cuz of the stuff u've had to go through and all... well done! haha... you certainly look more - mature then i've ever seen u in the uniform and oversized cap... :P

and yuanhong! haha... after all the long time i took to find u - and sitting at the wrong place so i didn't see ya... haha, but hey! congrats to you too... :) yr mum was soo proud of u... v happy for u too...

seeing everyone's parents so proud of their children, and the delightful cheers and hugs then went all round, knowing all the hardship they've gone thru to achieve what they did - i felt touched, and most certainly, i'd respect them. congrats to all of you...

ok, as for the rest of the week, 3 days was consumed by FRS... but my grp won 100!! woohoo! who'd have thot tt the cringe worthy QNA, where we got grilled and fried and just eaten alive would've ended up w us getting a prize?! haha... bryan was quite hilarious though during the presentation... and our topic was in itself, so intriguing... ;) does papaya increase breast size? all the strategically placed pictures and videos must have helped in inducing much laughter... ;) well - our conclusion - probably not. so no need to consume more papayas... ;)

and yes! meeting up with 3M friends. aaron, hs, yx, claire, wp and me of course. after a huge round abt, and initial confusion, we settled down for a super long drawn dinner... at which we yakked till the closing of the restaurant. after tt, i wanted to go with them to harry's for a drink - but since i can't really drink, and i had to wake up early for sch, i didn't... but, talking to everyone sorta made me realize tt all of us are gonna go down v different pathways in life. will be really interesting to meet up, say 10-15years time, and see how each of us are and what we're all doing then. i've a feeling we'll still be as silly and funny loving as ever though... ;)

and, i've finally managed to find a way to make my Civ 4 cd work! yay. been so captivated by it... playing into the wee hours of the morning... its damn damn fun... each game takes soo many hours, but i'm not bored, rather, am v addicted... :) go get it whoever!! u really must play it.

otherwise, my week can be summed up with - tennis, orchard, cityhall area... haha. nothing much really... just many money wasting ploys indeed. gotta start saving for xmas shopping.

this post is dedicated to the sgg cm and his new obsession - bjork.

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oh btw... exams are over... yay! ;) haha... its kinda hols now... except tt we've this most useless thing called FSR - foundation research skills taking up a few days of our hols... :( oh bah!!

anw, so... these few days, i've mostly been catching up with my slp - not sucessfully though, and just having fun! :) let's see now... fri... i went out in the afternoon and spent a lot... :/ this seems to be a growing trend... bought presents for pple's bday (i dun like nov and dec, many bday presents, plus xmas ones too!)... as well as a bag for myself. oh, i hate it when i spend a lot! :(

alright... then in the evening, i lugged my xbox over to nick's chalet! haha... its become such an annual affair now.. i've not missed it since i was primary 5! quite a looong time, and many many chalets as well... ;) it was still, 8-ish, and by 9 weili had arrived on his bike. he dared to cycle thru e dark lanes of the newly constructed pathway from east coast to safra... :X after he arrived, we proceeded to a massive xbox session! project gotham racing and halo... damn fun to play with yr friends instead of the usual, against the com... :) surprisingly, e lil ones didn't really bother us, they just watched by the side... the next morning, the weather was nice, and we decided to go cycling... except tt we met with a lil debacle. the stupid bike rental pple at safra claimed tt the bikes were gonna be on maintanence... but nick's mum, being ever persistent and stern, called the duty manager and scolded them... well, it was true tt it was a saturday, and tt it was impossible tt they couldn't even spare 2 bikes... so in the end, we got them! the bikes were not v good, and had no bell... but it just feels great to be out in the sun, with a light breeze in yr face as u cycle along the beach... especially since it was early and hardly anyone was around to obstruct... ;) we stopped at the lagoon area for a nice coconut water drink... yummy and refreshing...

after returning, we had lunch and bummed, giving in to our after lunch slugginish-ness.. well, there was still e xbox to entertain! after which, when we were sufficiently tired, they wanted to slp... but the sun was nice... so off we went to the poolside to lay on the deckchairs... haha. the plan was to rest and read, and maybe swim... but i ended i slping, and then in e jacuzzi... lazy way to pass an afternoon...

after we returned, matthew came! he was funny as ever, and we just talked and caught up... then went off to play bball for a while, and back we came to a nice bbq... the food was really really good... the marination and spread was just fab. felt really satiated, especially by the chicken and the crab... and zp came too... finally. without enough money, so i had to bail him from the cab... lol. matthew had one too many beers - or rather, he had a beer b4 his meal to qunech his thirst. bad mistake, he was a lil high and went crank-ish. haha... we just sat and chatted over dinner... abt some pretty interesting and sensitive stuff. i maintain tt i'd never have chosen to go into OCS even if i had another chance. i wun have liked it the least bit.. ah well. after which, we played cards, then 2v2 halo till it was time to go bowl and weili departed cuz he had to rest for this 21km half marathon... wow, i could nvr run tt... :X but yeah, bowling! it was just silly on my part... i was just playing like crap... and zp, concluded i wasn't aiming. he would repeatedly catch my balls just as i was abt to let them loose... quite hilarious. haha, times like this, i wish we'd be able to stay in such happiness forever and not grow up... i hope there'd still be times to share and remember as we grow... it was really late by the time we returned... and no ktv for matt cuz it was closed! and then, we bummed round watching a lil bit of soccer, till zp decided we should play polar bear with the lil kids! well, it was... interesting. firstly, the lil kids, some are larger than us in size, and they are actually 15, so tt's fine... but there are some sub 10 or thereabts... ah... those. A:"i saw X cheating! yr eyes were open" ZP:"How did u know tt his eyes were open unless u cheated and opened yrs too?!" ermm... B: "I didn't get to see the polarbear!" Nick: "I didn't tap yr head! you are not the guru" hmmm... and many more of such things... gosh... it was just damn funny, and at the same time exasperating... anw, it was really interesting cuz u can tell who can act and be scheming and who can't... nick can't do it to save his ass. everytime he was polar bear, he'd be voted out soon after cuz he just can't seem to contain tt fact within his brain... haha. and his mum who was watching, provided me much entertainment with her interesting expressions as she observed the whole situtation... i made a good polar bear! killed off everyone... it was the only time polar bears won... ;)

well, a few round... we just ended up talking again... the 4 of us... till abt 4, and we went to bed, with matthew going back... so tt concluded a nice long weekend... :)

i was left too tired though, tennis later on sunday afternoon wasn't quite tt gd... was still half aslp... :X

oh, did u know there's a lizard tt constantly crawls outside the window near the dining area in my house? it never fails to appear at 8pm or there abouts... haha. it used to be this huge lizard, but now, its a tiny one, but its growing! :) i think tt its the kid of the huge one... haha